THE SONG OF SOLOMON VI
THE SONG OF SOLOMON VI
Taught by: Carolyn Sissom 11/26/07
“The Prince’s Daughter”
Last week we closed with Song 6:10-13: The Bride is an awe-inspiring, bannered host. The Shulamite is as Mahanaim, the place where God camps or dwells! “Two Armies” = #4624 = Mahanaim; two camps, two hosts, armies, encampments”. She is dancing between the armies of Heaven and the armies of the earth. The dance of Mahanaim is the dance of Victory over all enemies (Rom. 10: 14-15)
“The Bride stands boldly, as an army with banners, but free and liberated to dance without shame (like David) between the Priests. She should be prepared, however, for the same criticism David received and be ready to give the same response. David did not receive the criticism into His spirit but danced harder!”
“Who is she that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to se whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib. Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return that we may look upon you. What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.”
Fair as the moon, and clear as the sun – This is the lightning and bright shining of Jesus appearing in his saints. “The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.” (Isaiah 30:26)
He has come to dwell in her heart by faith that she might be filled with all the fullness of Christ. Now the King leads his bride forth. He went into the garden of nuts looking for signs of new life. He is looking for the fruit of her womb…a son or a man child who would be his heir and possessor of His name. This is the Third garden mentioned in the Song. The King is telling her I had to withdraw my presence from your consciousness so that suffering would bring you to the end of yourself and press you into a union of oneness with me. I asked you to go with Me to the mount of myrrh, but you fell asleep. So I brought the mountain of suffering to you! All of the anguish, heartache, and humiliating shame you have endured was necessary for the glory that is about to be revealed in you! You had to be brought low to feel the need of My people. You have not been brought to My side to sit as a Queen and be served. You and I together must lay down our lives for our people. Our tears must fall with their tears; our hands must be stretched out always to meet the needs of others. We must set the captives free.
The chariots of Ammi-Nadib : “Am” = “a people, tribe, troops, attendants, flock, nation, men; associates, those overshadowed or huddled together: #5068 “Nadab” = “to impel; to volunteer (as a soldier) or to present spontaneously; offer freely” “Ammi-Nadib can also be rendered as people or liberality, people of willing generosity, my people in abundance.”
Commentators are unanimous that this verse is the most difficult in the Song and one of the most difficult in the Old Testament to make sense of. The difficulty is if He or She is speaking in verse 12. Whatever the position one takes, I would conclude they have been made one with purpose and vision. The word chariot speaks of a vehicle for movement – The chariot throne of God is described in the Book of Ezekiel in motion, the release and administration of His Kingly authority.
The King now guides the steps of his Beloved leaving out of town. A few steps behind the royal couple walked their friends. They remembered her from the experiences in the House of Wine and the midnight parade in her honor. But their hearts were heavy as they saw the Lord and His Bride walking away from them. Soon the royal couple began to disappear over the hill. In anguish and desperation the Daughters of Jerusalem cry after her.
“Return, return o Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon you.
By this time the royal couples is almost out of the sight of the Daughters of Jerusalem. The Daughters had not permitted Him to be King over their lives, and now they must accept Him through one who had given Him a temple in which to reign! The Lord and His Bride still stood in the road. The Daughters begin to praise her:
7:1 “How beautiful are your feet with shoes, O Prince’s Daughter! The joints of your thighs are like Jewels. The work of the hands of a cunning workman.” (The Daughters of Jerusalem are speaking to her).
Here the Daughters sing her praises from head to foot. Her feet represent her walk and her thighs are power to create. I had a vision years ago of the Lord placing on my feet silver slippers. He spoke to me saying, “Your Faith has been purified in the fire seven times, go and teach it.” (Psalm 12:6) “The words of the Lord are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.”
The Jewels speak of the wisdom and knowledge of the Spirit by which she does the work of the Lord.
A passage in Psalms 45: 9-17 draws attention to this portion of the Song:
“King’s daughters were among the honorable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. Hearken O daughter, and consider and incline your ear; forget also you own people, and your father’s house; so shall the king greatly desire your beauty; for he is your Lord; and worship though him. And the daughter of Tyre shall be with a gift; the rich among the people shall entreat your favor. The King’s daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework; the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you. With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace. Instead of your fathers shall be your children, who you may make princes in all the earth. I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you for ever and ever. “
Jesus’ Bride is adorned with shoes, and she is faithful. She trusts not in her beauty. She is the finished work. Her feet are “shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.”
Song 7:2-5 “Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wants not liquor; your belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies. Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. Your neck is a tower of ivory; your eyes like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: Your nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus. Your head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. (The Daughters of Jerusalem are speaking)
7:-9:ow fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! This your stature is like to a palm tree and your breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples; and the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.” (The King is speaking)
The words continue to pour forth from hearts that have recognized the Shulamite as the Bride of Christ. These descriptions are metaphorical of a submitted will, anointed vision and keen discernment. Her headship and her submission to his Headship is evident. Some have rendered Carmel to mean “Crimson” Purple speaks of royalty. These are the throne rights of Revelation 12:5. the King is captivated by her dedication, separation and loyal submission. She is anointed, like Elijah, to bring people back to God. The principle of the Crown is here also. Carmel is the Crown of Glory and Purple is the Crown of Suffering (Rom. 8:17).
She has power with God. Heshbon means, “stronghold”. Bathrabbim means, “daughter of many.” Fish pools are references to two pools which were fitly placed at the entrance to the gate of the city.
Solomon built buildings in Lebanon. He no doubt built towers there as well. I am sure this tower was the most beautiful tower of all.
Though the Daughters have praised her well, they still see her and her King as two and not one. The years and years of old order teaching have seen to that. Their tradition had not been broken.
The King had been listening as the Daughters sang. He lifts it back into even a higher key.
7:7: “This your stature is like to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.” (The King is speaking to her)
The palm tree is a special tree in the bible. In Psalms 92:12, it is associated with righteousness. “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.” Plant the righteous anywhere; they will grow, prosper, bear fruit, and be a haven of blessing for those who seek them. Later than same Psalm speaks of the Lord being upright and then says: there is no unrighteousness in Him.(vs. 15). What He finds in the Bride is the character of a righteous person.
The palm branches in the hands of the redeemed declare God gave them salvation and deliverance from the Law and the flesh. This deliverance is the key to the Song.
When the multitudes carried palm branches into Jerusalem, they were symbolic that the holder possesses righteousness like the palm tree. (C.R. Oliver – Solomon’s Secret)
The clusters of grapes is described in Isaiah 65:8: “Thus saith the Lord, as the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Destroy it now; for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.”
The new wine of the wedding feast, the wife of the New Covenant in His blood, and the true communion of the Lord’s supper are all present in this analogy.
The wedding feast of Cana was on the third Day. Her mouth reveals her heart. There is a people who will run the last leg of this relay race; when they win, everybody wins! for the importance of the tongue that speaks life, see James 3. the royal couple has already tasted of the third dimension, and out of that union will roar the man child from Zion!
Song 7: 10-13: “I am my beloved’s and his desire is toward me. Come my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: There will I give you my loves. The mandrakes give a smell and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.” (She is speaking to Him)
The Shulamite had been made ready to be a co-laborer with her Bridegroom. She was not able to initiate a work in His behalf. She may not, dare not, go on without Him. she is now ready to go forth with Him into the fields of the world! The field is the world. Now that the Bride and the Bridegroom have become one, all creation will feel the impact of that union! The Song has come full circle: In the beginning, He was drawing her; now she is drawing Him! She who was invited now offers the invitation! This is the more excellent ministry which operates by the creative spoken word in the areas of forgiveness and blessing. They will continue in that priesthood for it is immutable and unchangeable! The field is ripe!
The royal couple continue walking down the road. The Daughters are following, but at a distance. But the King and His Bride know where they are going. They honeymoon house is near. It stands beside the road; the door is still open as she had left it when she had fled in panic to find her Lord. The gate is open to the front yard. All manner of fruit bearing plants are growing here and bask in the morning sun. She points out the mandrake. This plant was believed to have been an aid in bearing children. The mandrake indicates that it is time for the Bride to become the mother of the King’s child. The moon is under her feet and on her head is a crown with twelve stars. This son is the hope of a groaning creation.
8:1-3: “O that you were as my brother that sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without. I would kiss you. Yea, I should not be despised. I would lead you and bring you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.” (She is speaking to Him)
The Bride had to leave her mother’s house to find Him. But now, as she groans for full deliverance, she desires for the whole creation to be released. That includes her mother and stepbrothers! She desires for others to have the meat and the wine of His Kingdom.
Now the King speaks to the Daughters who have finally caught up with them as they stood talking in the yard. He will have nothing disturb His bride at this point! He charges them:
8:4 “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem that you stir not up, nor awake my love, unto he please.” (He is speaking to them). The King closes the door between the royal couple and the Daughters. It will be when she appears again…much, much later, and accompanied by her son…that they will understand God’s eternal purpose. The Lord and the Shulamite are left in seclusion. The Holy parents slip into the wilderness, remaining unseen with the son until the day he is to be manifested in the land. For many months, the Daughters wait for the bride to reappear, but she is gone from them. But the parents and the child are not idle: they are walking up and down through the vineyards (churches), fields and forests, hand in hand but still unobserved.
As the Daughters of Jerusalem wait and wait and wait, one day there seemed to be someone walking up the highway. It was more than one person...it looked like two people...and again it looked like three people! It could have one, two, or three. It is hard to tell. ‘It is the King!!!” The Daughters cry. He has returned!!! The Shulamite is clinging to His arm so closely that the two appear to be one!
8:5: “Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there your mother brought you forth: there she brought you forth that bare thee.” (The Daughters of Jerusalem are speaking)
This sounds like a child was born to me. “Just where you were swaddled, a babe, just there, by your mother – Moffatt; The King (Jesus) is the Apple Tree, the Tree of Life; “Mother”= Shulamite. “Brought forth” – to travail to bring forth (in birth).
A man, a maid and a man-child. Just like Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac; just like Boaz, Ruth and Obed; so we have the King, the Shulamite and a man child. The man child is the Joseph Company, David Company, Joel’s Army, the overcomer, the 144,000, the Benjamin Company, etc.
8:6: “Set me as a seal; upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame.” (the Man-child is speaking to the King)
“the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the Lord” “For mighty as death is love, exacting as Hades is jealousy: - Rotherham. As for passion, its bolts are belts of fire, furious flames = Goodspeed.
This verse reveals the principle of sealing. There were three signets or seals on the garments of the High Priest. (Duet. 16:16) the first seal is the seal of water baptism in the Name of the Lord (breastplate); the second seal is the seal of the Holy Ghost Baptism (the two onyx stones); the third seal is the full mind of the Lord (gold plate = forehead). This is the mark of the Lord as contrasted with the Mark of the beast. The image upon the heart would result in it have first place in the affections. The arm is the seat of strength.
The son and heir is speaking to the Daughters—representatives of the bondage-ridden creation---‘I am your only hope now,” he says. The Lord, the Spirit, and the
Bride said, “Come”, but you did not come. Their redemptive work is finished, and all the creation has been handed over to me. I have been prepared, trained, and equipped to meet your every need. The man child had been chosen from the foundation of the world to fulfill the mysteries of God. “Set you heart and attention on me!” I am sent forth to bring you deliverance. Love can overcome every obstacle. Undivided devotion will burn as the flame of God’ fire.
8:7: ‘Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of His house for love, it would utterly be condemned.”
(The Man Child is speaking to the Daughters)
This is the message of the sons of God in their manifestation: the Love of God! The word and ministry of reconciliation. The first work of restoring this groaning creation starts with the Daughters! Then on to the residue of men. But most of the creation is so undeveloped. There is much to be done. It is a great challenge.
8:8: ‘We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: What shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.”
We cannot be double minded. The walls are salvation. God is apostolic before he is pastoral; that is, He is a builder, and he desires to build himself within a people even before he desires to meet their needs! The King wants to build a tower. These are not words of condemnation or reproof for the little sister.
The King is jubilant…the Bride is radiant…the son is magnificent…the Daughters are joyous…the little sister is resplendent in shining silver...and the rest of creation stirs itself in the chains of corruption.
The redeeming work goes at a fast pace. The enemy is being removed by the outshining or the glory of the Holy Family. The apostate system of worship is destroyed. The houses of women are torn down. Multitudes come and are delivered from their bondages. Sickness, disease, sin, death, fear and all things that are not of God are removed from His Kingdom The wicked are removed and the righteous shine forth in the realm of the King. The time of darkness gives way to the light, and the redeemed come from all over the earth to her tell again and again the story of her life. She was the one who opened the way and brought forth the seed that had bruised the head of the enemy. She has a place at the King’s side that no other may have. She is eternally the Bride of the Lamb of God.
8:10: I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor.” (She is speaking) she is telling her story. Tears fill their eyes as she rehearses those long, lonely years spent in the desert where she had learned the lessons of obedience and faithfulness. The part at the banqueting house…the fearful search in home…the midnight parade through the streets of the city…the wedding reception…the green room…the nightmare…her discover of Him in His garden! All this was the pruning knife of the vinedressers.
8:11: “Solomon had a vineyard at Bal-Hamon; he left out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.”
Some say the thousand pieces of silver is souls others say this is in reference to a vast amount of wealth. The supplier of every need, the bastion against all storms, and the cry against every creditor stands before her. He has a vineyard and she has a vineyard.
8:12: My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, o Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.” (She is speaking)
“Keep the Fruit” points back to Eden and Man’s dominion of the earth! Two Hundred is 5 x 40 = Grace in Trial and Testing. The King is her Benjamin’s Feast (5 times as much!) (gen. 43:34) she did all this because of Grace and not Law
8:13: “You that dwell in the gardens, the companions hearken to your voice, cause me to hear it.” (He is speaking to her.)
The King tells her, “your little sisters and the Daughters of Jerusalem are listening to the words you are teaching. Your words are words of power, wisdom, authority and love to them. My Glorified goat-keeper, I love the sound of your voice
8:14: “Make haste, my beloved, and be you like to a Roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.” (She is speaking to Him)
The mountain of spices is metaphorical of the fullness of earthly love and Agape love.
We again see Jesus in the power of His resurrection. Her heart cry, joins the cry of all the redeemed of the ages: “Come, Lord Jesus that all the Kingdoms of this world may become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.) (Rev. 11:15) This is her desire to see Him in His second coming!
Hallelujah – the King is Here and He is Coming!!!!
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries, Inc.
www.eastgateministries.com
Text gleaned from “Solomon’s Secret” by C. R. Oliver and Principles of Present Truth by Kelly Varner. Quotes from King James Bible.
Taught by: Carolyn Sissom 11/26/07
“The Prince’s Daughter”
Last week we closed with Song 6:10-13: The Bride is an awe-inspiring, bannered host. The Shulamite is as Mahanaim, the place where God camps or dwells! “Two Armies” = #4624 = Mahanaim; two camps, two hosts, armies, encampments”. She is dancing between the armies of Heaven and the armies of the earth. The dance of Mahanaim is the dance of Victory over all enemies (Rom. 10: 14-15)
“The Bride stands boldly, as an army with banners, but free and liberated to dance without shame (like David) between the Priests. She should be prepared, however, for the same criticism David received and be ready to give the same response. David did not receive the criticism into His spirit but danced harder!”
“Who is she that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to se whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib. Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return that we may look upon you. What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.”
Fair as the moon, and clear as the sun – This is the lightning and bright shining of Jesus appearing in his saints. “The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.” (Isaiah 30:26)
He has come to dwell in her heart by faith that she might be filled with all the fullness of Christ. Now the King leads his bride forth. He went into the garden of nuts looking for signs of new life. He is looking for the fruit of her womb…a son or a man child who would be his heir and possessor of His name. This is the Third garden mentioned in the Song. The King is telling her I had to withdraw my presence from your consciousness so that suffering would bring you to the end of yourself and press you into a union of oneness with me. I asked you to go with Me to the mount of myrrh, but you fell asleep. So I brought the mountain of suffering to you! All of the anguish, heartache, and humiliating shame you have endured was necessary for the glory that is about to be revealed in you! You had to be brought low to feel the need of My people. You have not been brought to My side to sit as a Queen and be served. You and I together must lay down our lives for our people. Our tears must fall with their tears; our hands must be stretched out always to meet the needs of others. We must set the captives free.
The chariots of Ammi-Nadib : “Am” = “a people, tribe, troops, attendants, flock, nation, men; associates, those overshadowed or huddled together: #5068 “Nadab” = “to impel; to volunteer (as a soldier) or to present spontaneously; offer freely” “Ammi-Nadib can also be rendered as people or liberality, people of willing generosity, my people in abundance.”
Commentators are unanimous that this verse is the most difficult in the Song and one of the most difficult in the Old Testament to make sense of. The difficulty is if He or She is speaking in verse 12. Whatever the position one takes, I would conclude they have been made one with purpose and vision. The word chariot speaks of a vehicle for movement – The chariot throne of God is described in the Book of Ezekiel in motion, the release and administration of His Kingly authority.
The King now guides the steps of his Beloved leaving out of town. A few steps behind the royal couple walked their friends. They remembered her from the experiences in the House of Wine and the midnight parade in her honor. But their hearts were heavy as they saw the Lord and His Bride walking away from them. Soon the royal couple began to disappear over the hill. In anguish and desperation the Daughters of Jerusalem cry after her.
“Return, return o Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon you.
By this time the royal couples is almost out of the sight of the Daughters of Jerusalem. The Daughters had not permitted Him to be King over their lives, and now they must accept Him through one who had given Him a temple in which to reign! The Lord and His Bride still stood in the road. The Daughters begin to praise her:
7:1 “How beautiful are your feet with shoes, O Prince’s Daughter! The joints of your thighs are like Jewels. The work of the hands of a cunning workman.” (The Daughters of Jerusalem are speaking to her).
Here the Daughters sing her praises from head to foot. Her feet represent her walk and her thighs are power to create. I had a vision years ago of the Lord placing on my feet silver slippers. He spoke to me saying, “Your Faith has been purified in the fire seven times, go and teach it.” (Psalm 12:6) “The words of the Lord are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.”
The Jewels speak of the wisdom and knowledge of the Spirit by which she does the work of the Lord.
A passage in Psalms 45: 9-17 draws attention to this portion of the Song:
“King’s daughters were among the honorable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. Hearken O daughter, and consider and incline your ear; forget also you own people, and your father’s house; so shall the king greatly desire your beauty; for he is your Lord; and worship though him. And the daughter of Tyre shall be with a gift; the rich among the people shall entreat your favor. The King’s daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework; the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you. With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace. Instead of your fathers shall be your children, who you may make princes in all the earth. I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you for ever and ever. “
Jesus’ Bride is adorned with shoes, and she is faithful. She trusts not in her beauty. She is the finished work. Her feet are “shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.”
Song 7:2-5 “Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wants not liquor; your belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies. Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. Your neck is a tower of ivory; your eyes like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: Your nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus. Your head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. (The Daughters of Jerusalem are speaking)
7:-9:ow fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! This your stature is like to a palm tree and your breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples; and the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.” (The King is speaking)
The words continue to pour forth from hearts that have recognized the Shulamite as the Bride of Christ. These descriptions are metaphorical of a submitted will, anointed vision and keen discernment. Her headship and her submission to his Headship is evident. Some have rendered Carmel to mean “Crimson” Purple speaks of royalty. These are the throne rights of Revelation 12:5. the King is captivated by her dedication, separation and loyal submission. She is anointed, like Elijah, to bring people back to God. The principle of the Crown is here also. Carmel is the Crown of Glory and Purple is the Crown of Suffering (Rom. 8:17).
She has power with God. Heshbon means, “stronghold”. Bathrabbim means, “daughter of many.” Fish pools are references to two pools which were fitly placed at the entrance to the gate of the city.
Solomon built buildings in Lebanon. He no doubt built towers there as well. I am sure this tower was the most beautiful tower of all.
Though the Daughters have praised her well, they still see her and her King as two and not one. The years and years of old order teaching have seen to that. Their tradition had not been broken.
The King had been listening as the Daughters sang. He lifts it back into even a higher key.
7:7: “This your stature is like to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.” (The King is speaking to her)
The palm tree is a special tree in the bible. In Psalms 92:12, it is associated with righteousness. “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.” Plant the righteous anywhere; they will grow, prosper, bear fruit, and be a haven of blessing for those who seek them. Later than same Psalm speaks of the Lord being upright and then says: there is no unrighteousness in Him.(vs. 15). What He finds in the Bride is the character of a righteous person.
The palm branches in the hands of the redeemed declare God gave them salvation and deliverance from the Law and the flesh. This deliverance is the key to the Song.
When the multitudes carried palm branches into Jerusalem, they were symbolic that the holder possesses righteousness like the palm tree. (C.R. Oliver – Solomon’s Secret)
The clusters of grapes is described in Isaiah 65:8: “Thus saith the Lord, as the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Destroy it now; for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.”
The new wine of the wedding feast, the wife of the New Covenant in His blood, and the true communion of the Lord’s supper are all present in this analogy.
The wedding feast of Cana was on the third Day. Her mouth reveals her heart. There is a people who will run the last leg of this relay race; when they win, everybody wins! for the importance of the tongue that speaks life, see James 3. the royal couple has already tasted of the third dimension, and out of that union will roar the man child from Zion!
Song 7: 10-13: “I am my beloved’s and his desire is toward me. Come my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: There will I give you my loves. The mandrakes give a smell and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.” (She is speaking to Him)
The Shulamite had been made ready to be a co-laborer with her Bridegroom. She was not able to initiate a work in His behalf. She may not, dare not, go on without Him. she is now ready to go forth with Him into the fields of the world! The field is the world. Now that the Bride and the Bridegroom have become one, all creation will feel the impact of that union! The Song has come full circle: In the beginning, He was drawing her; now she is drawing Him! She who was invited now offers the invitation! This is the more excellent ministry which operates by the creative spoken word in the areas of forgiveness and blessing. They will continue in that priesthood for it is immutable and unchangeable! The field is ripe!
The royal couple continue walking down the road. The Daughters are following, but at a distance. But the King and His Bride know where they are going. They honeymoon house is near. It stands beside the road; the door is still open as she had left it when she had fled in panic to find her Lord. The gate is open to the front yard. All manner of fruit bearing plants are growing here and bask in the morning sun. She points out the mandrake. This plant was believed to have been an aid in bearing children. The mandrake indicates that it is time for the Bride to become the mother of the King’s child. The moon is under her feet and on her head is a crown with twelve stars. This son is the hope of a groaning creation.
8:1-3: “O that you were as my brother that sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without. I would kiss you. Yea, I should not be despised. I would lead you and bring you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.” (She is speaking to Him)
The Bride had to leave her mother’s house to find Him. But now, as she groans for full deliverance, she desires for the whole creation to be released. That includes her mother and stepbrothers! She desires for others to have the meat and the wine of His Kingdom.
Now the King speaks to the Daughters who have finally caught up with them as they stood talking in the yard. He will have nothing disturb His bride at this point! He charges them:
8:4 “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem that you stir not up, nor awake my love, unto he please.” (He is speaking to them). The King closes the door between the royal couple and the Daughters. It will be when she appears again…much, much later, and accompanied by her son…that they will understand God’s eternal purpose. The Lord and the Shulamite are left in seclusion. The Holy parents slip into the wilderness, remaining unseen with the son until the day he is to be manifested in the land. For many months, the Daughters wait for the bride to reappear, but she is gone from them. But the parents and the child are not idle: they are walking up and down through the vineyards (churches), fields and forests, hand in hand but still unobserved.
As the Daughters of Jerusalem wait and wait and wait, one day there seemed to be someone walking up the highway. It was more than one person...it looked like two people...and again it looked like three people! It could have one, two, or three. It is hard to tell. ‘It is the King!!!” The Daughters cry. He has returned!!! The Shulamite is clinging to His arm so closely that the two appear to be one!
8:5: “Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there your mother brought you forth: there she brought you forth that bare thee.” (The Daughters of Jerusalem are speaking)
This sounds like a child was born to me. “Just where you were swaddled, a babe, just there, by your mother – Moffatt; The King (Jesus) is the Apple Tree, the Tree of Life; “Mother”= Shulamite. “Brought forth” – to travail to bring forth (in birth).
A man, a maid and a man-child. Just like Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac; just like Boaz, Ruth and Obed; so we have the King, the Shulamite and a man child. The man child is the Joseph Company, David Company, Joel’s Army, the overcomer, the 144,000, the Benjamin Company, etc.
8:6: “Set me as a seal; upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame.” (the Man-child is speaking to the King)
“the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the Lord” “For mighty as death is love, exacting as Hades is jealousy: - Rotherham. As for passion, its bolts are belts of fire, furious flames = Goodspeed.
This verse reveals the principle of sealing. There were three signets or seals on the garments of the High Priest. (Duet. 16:16) the first seal is the seal of water baptism in the Name of the Lord (breastplate); the second seal is the seal of the Holy Ghost Baptism (the two onyx stones); the third seal is the full mind of the Lord (gold plate = forehead). This is the mark of the Lord as contrasted with the Mark of the beast. The image upon the heart would result in it have first place in the affections. The arm is the seat of strength.
The son and heir is speaking to the Daughters—representatives of the bondage-ridden creation---‘I am your only hope now,” he says. The Lord, the Spirit, and the
Bride said, “Come”, but you did not come. Their redemptive work is finished, and all the creation has been handed over to me. I have been prepared, trained, and equipped to meet your every need. The man child had been chosen from the foundation of the world to fulfill the mysteries of God. “Set you heart and attention on me!” I am sent forth to bring you deliverance. Love can overcome every obstacle. Undivided devotion will burn as the flame of God’ fire.
8:7: ‘Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of His house for love, it would utterly be condemned.”
(The Man Child is speaking to the Daughters)
This is the message of the sons of God in their manifestation: the Love of God! The word and ministry of reconciliation. The first work of restoring this groaning creation starts with the Daughters! Then on to the residue of men. But most of the creation is so undeveloped. There is much to be done. It is a great challenge.
8:8: ‘We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: What shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.”
We cannot be double minded. The walls are salvation. God is apostolic before he is pastoral; that is, He is a builder, and he desires to build himself within a people even before he desires to meet their needs! The King wants to build a tower. These are not words of condemnation or reproof for the little sister.
The King is jubilant…the Bride is radiant…the son is magnificent…the Daughters are joyous…the little sister is resplendent in shining silver...and the rest of creation stirs itself in the chains of corruption.
The redeeming work goes at a fast pace. The enemy is being removed by the outshining or the glory of the Holy Family. The apostate system of worship is destroyed. The houses of women are torn down. Multitudes come and are delivered from their bondages. Sickness, disease, sin, death, fear and all things that are not of God are removed from His Kingdom The wicked are removed and the righteous shine forth in the realm of the King. The time of darkness gives way to the light, and the redeemed come from all over the earth to her tell again and again the story of her life. She was the one who opened the way and brought forth the seed that had bruised the head of the enemy. She has a place at the King’s side that no other may have. She is eternally the Bride of the Lamb of God.
8:10: I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor.” (She is speaking) she is telling her story. Tears fill their eyes as she rehearses those long, lonely years spent in the desert where she had learned the lessons of obedience and faithfulness. The part at the banqueting house…the fearful search in home…the midnight parade through the streets of the city…the wedding reception…the green room…the nightmare…her discover of Him in His garden! All this was the pruning knife of the vinedressers.
8:11: “Solomon had a vineyard at Bal-Hamon; he left out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.”
Some say the thousand pieces of silver is souls others say this is in reference to a vast amount of wealth. The supplier of every need, the bastion against all storms, and the cry against every creditor stands before her. He has a vineyard and she has a vineyard.
8:12: My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, o Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.” (She is speaking)
“Keep the Fruit” points back to Eden and Man’s dominion of the earth! Two Hundred is 5 x 40 = Grace in Trial and Testing. The King is her Benjamin’s Feast (5 times as much!) (gen. 43:34) she did all this because of Grace and not Law
8:13: “You that dwell in the gardens, the companions hearken to your voice, cause me to hear it.” (He is speaking to her.)
The King tells her, “your little sisters and the Daughters of Jerusalem are listening to the words you are teaching. Your words are words of power, wisdom, authority and love to them. My Glorified goat-keeper, I love the sound of your voice
8:14: “Make haste, my beloved, and be you like to a Roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.” (She is speaking to Him)
The mountain of spices is metaphorical of the fullness of earthly love and Agape love.
We again see Jesus in the power of His resurrection. Her heart cry, joins the cry of all the redeemed of the ages: “Come, Lord Jesus that all the Kingdoms of this world may become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.) (Rev. 11:15) This is her desire to see Him in His second coming!
Hallelujah – the King is Here and He is Coming!!!!
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries, Inc.
www.eastgateministries.com
Text gleaned from “Solomon’s Secret” by C. R. Oliver and Principles of Present Truth by Kelly Varner. Quotes from King James Bible.